Q. Cedric, Norris, at the start were you looking for that outside shot, because that's what worked against Wake, to jump on them early?

NORRIS COLE: Actually our plan was to get the ball to the paint, get the ball to the middle and then penetrate and kick out and if a shot was there, take it.

Q. This is for either of you guys: You've obviously come a long way, but I'm sure you're disappointed now. Can you talk about your feelings about what you've achieved here and maybe falling short?

Cedric Jackson

CEDRIC JACKSON: We've come a long way from the start of the summertime, from our conference championship last year, we fell short. So our journey started then last year. You know, from that point until this point now, you know, we're not really sad that the game is over. You know, we're just really sad that our year is coming to an end as a family, you know what I'm saying? Just everything we do together every day, we won't really be doing that much anymore.

But we had a great year. We had ups and downs, losing on buzzer beaters to Butler, but us still coming back to regroup. You know, it was just us against the world, and we prevailed all the way to this end. We're just proud that we could make it this far.

Q. Cedric and Norris, can you talk about how good Nic Wise is. And is he sort of an underrated point guard coming into this tournament a little bit?

COLE: He's a very quick point guard, very shifty with the ball. It was difficult keeping him out of the paint. That was our plan, try to make him go east and west and not north and south, and he's a very quick point guard. I don't know how people rate him or anything, but from all the guards that I've checked this year, he's definitely one of the more difficult guards.

Q. Cedric, how difficult was that stretch when you were out with an injury at the end of the first half?

JACKSON: It was pretty difficult because I got scratched pretty bad in my eye and I couldn't see, but I tried to fight through it. I did the best I could, but I just tried to fight through it.

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